, as Fuller informs us, was born at Geddington, in the county of
, as Fuller informs us,
was born at Geddington, in the county of Northampton,
and bred a bible-clerk in Corpus Christi college, Cambridge: but Wood has made him a Greek scholar in Pembroke-hall. As a confirmation, however, of the former,
he published “A Book of Epitaphs, made upon the death
of the right worshipful sir William Buttes, knt.
” in Survey of the Great Duke’s State of
Tuscany in the year 1596,
” which was inscribed to him by
the publisher, Edward Blount, in 1605, 4to; and in the
same year appeared his “Method of Travel, shewed bjjj
taking a view of France as it stood in 1598,
” 4to. In
the preface he says that he was at the last jubilee at Rome,
and that “this discourse was written long since, when the
now lord secretary was then lord ambassador, and intended
for the private use of an hon. gent.
” The second edition,
published in 162y, contains the clause of Guicciardini defaced by the inquisition, consisting of sixty-one pages.
After his return he became secretary to Francis earl of
Rutland, then one of the privy chamber to prince Charles,
and master of the Charter-house, where he introduced i:ito
the school the custom of versifying on passages of the holy
scripture; about which time he had also the honour of
knighthood conferred upon him. He was incorporated
A.M. at Oxford in 1601, and published “Aphorismes,
Civil and Military; amplified with authorities, and exemplified with history out of the first quaterne of Fr. Guicciardini/' Lond. 1615, fol. in which he is said to have
” shown both wit and judgment." He died in the latter
end of the year 1637, upwards of seventy-six years old,
and was buried in the Charter-house chapel.